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Palestinian rivals resume talks on sharing power
CAIRO (AP) - Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah began a fifth round of talks Saturday aimed at forming a deal to share power, the latest session in months of fruitless negotiations.
The key stumbling block in the Egyptian-mediated talks remains the political program of a unity government that would be in power until elections are held in January 2010.
The international community says it will only deal with a Palestinian government that recognizes Israel, a concession the Islamic militant Hamas is unwilling to make.
Hamas seized Gaza by force in June 2007, four months after its previous power-sharing deal with President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement collapsed. Each side set up its own government, Hamas in Gaza and Abbas in the West Bank.
